( 1 ) THIS is a wife s appeal against the order passed by Shri RC Jain, District Judge, Delhi on 23rd March, 1984. The Additional District Judge has dissolved the marriage between the parties by granting divorce under Section 13 (1) (ia) and (ib) of the Hindu Marriage Act (hereinafter called the Act ). The Additional District Judge has left the parties to bear their own costs.

( 2 ) THE marriage between the parties was performed according to the Hindu rites at Ajmer, Rajasthan on 17-8-1949.

( 3 ) A son, named Kalyan was born to the parties on 21-9-51.

( 4 ) IT is stated in the petition filed by the respondent-husband that in the year 1951. he was sponsored by the University of Bombay to go to London. Before going to London, he requested the wife to accompany him to London, but she refused to do so. It was stated that the husband returned, after his visit to London, at the end of October, 1953 and on his return, he found the behaviour of the wife to be cruel and not submissive ; and that the wife was always abusing the husband and his parents etc. and that the threatened the husband with dire consequences; and has got the respondent beaten through her relations.